statements from ken shanall and ken frazier of merck asking people to sign statements opposing restrictive voting laws. the outcome was a two-page ad that ran wednesday in the new york post and apple and facebook and ibm, lyft, paypal, peloton, target are among those who signed. warren buffett signed individually and so is did samuel j. jackson and amy schumer. a slew of well-known law firms also lent their support. there were major interests that didn t sign, walmart, j.p. morgan chase and coca-cola among them. a letter was sent to the ceos the company is not in the business of business applications and two weeks ago, senate minority leader mitchell mcconnell said corporations should not be intimidated by the left and should stay out of politics. he noted his comments did not apply to political contributions. others have questioned whether the ceos have read the georgia bill. in similar fashion i asked those critical of corporate community have read the ad. the times rep
screen with you and we can get right started. ok, great. so as always, what we are looking at in this class today is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness, withfitness culture, working out, even as the united states is not a particularly fit nation. and if anything in the past 75 to 100 years or so that we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. that is the kind of overarching arc of the class. today, we turn to the 1980 s. so the name of the lecture is a quote from one of the oral histories that i have done for the book research i m doing, on which this course is based. it is i would have been a pe teacher. we will get there to the end of class. i will tell you who said it, but that idea that in another historical moment, the people who be
fitness culture, working out, even as the united states is not . particularly fit nation and if anything in the past 75 to 100 years we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. that is the overarching arc of the class. today we turn to the 1980 s. the name of the lecture is a quote from one of the oral histories i have done for the book research i m doing, on which this course is based. it is i would have been a pe teacher. i will to you who said it tell you who said it. in another historical moment, the people who became architects of the fitness industry would have been physical education teachers is an important idea as we talk about the 1980 s. i would have been a pe teacher, 1980 s fitness culture in the united states. i want to talk about the unit
this is i believe our third week together virtually. i hope you all are doing well. i will share my screen with you and we can get right started. so as always what we are looking at in this class today is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness, cutler fitness culture, working out, even as the united states is not a particularly fit nation. and if anything in the past 75 to 100 years we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. that is the overarching arc of the class. today we turn to the 1980 s. the name of the lecture is a quote from one of the oral histories i have done for the book research i m doing, on which this course is based. it is i would have been a pe teacher. we will get there to the end of class. i will tell you said it. in an
american history tv is on social media. follow us @c-spanhistory. up next, another class from our series lectures in history. hi and welcome to fit nation. we are talking today about 1980s workout culture. this is, i believe now, our third week together virtually. i hope you all are doing well. i m going to go ahead and share my screen with you and we can get right started. okay, great. so as always what we re looking at in this class today is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness, with fitness culture, with working out, even as the united states is not a particularly fit nation and even as, if anything, in the past 75 to 100 years or so that we look at in this course, americans have actually become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or a signal of kind of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a, quote, unquote, fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. so that s the kind